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CELEBRITY TRIVIA

CELEBRITY DEATHS

(113 ENTRIES)

 

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1)
Ivan The Terrible, of Russia, although responsible for many deaths during his bloodthirsty reign, actually died while he was playing chess.

2)
In 1471, Pope Paul II died while he was being sodomized by a page boy.

3)
King George II, of England died when he was straining to relieve his constipation. He fell off the toilet and banged his head on a cupboard.

4)
In 1468, King Charles VIII, of France, died while he was playing tennis. He bowed to his wife to allow her to serve first and as he brought his head up he accidentally smashed into a wooden beam, fracturing his skull and killing him.

5)
In 1920, King Alexandros I, of Greece, died from blood poisoning after his pet monkey bit him.

6)
Emperor Claudius, of Rome, died after he choked to death on a feather that was put down his throat by his doctor to make him vomit.

7)
In 1908, King Charles, of Portugal, and his son Crown Prince Luis Filipe, were both mortally wounded in the same assassination attack. King Charles was killed instantly in the attack but Prince Luis survived for a mere 20 minutes.
Prince Luis technically became King of Portugal for less than half an hour!

8)
Pope Adrian IV, the only English Pope in history, accidentally swallowed a fly and choked to death.

9)
King Alexander III, of Scotland, was killed when his horse jumped over a cliff when he was out riding at night.

10)
In 1715, Prince Frederick, of England, who would have succeeded George II as King, was killed when a cricket ball hit him in the head.

11)
Alexander The Great, the Macedonian Leader, dropped dead in the middle of a drinking contest. He was only 32 years old.

12)
Marie Curie, the famous discoverer of radium, died from radiation poisoning. She was the first person in history to die from radiation sickness.
Even after 70 years her notebooks are still too contaminated to handle with bare hands.

13)
Harry Houdini, the famous escapologist, died when he dared a man to punch him in the stomach, but before he could prepare himself for the punch the man hit him, causing an internal rupture. Houdini collapsed in agony and died shortly afterwards.

14)
Mr. Jim Fixx, the man famous for making jogging popular, died of a heart attack while he was out jogging.

15)
Viscount Palmerston, of England, was having sex with a parlourmaid on his private billiard table when he had a heart attack and died.

16)
King James II, of Scotland, was killed when one of his own cannons exploded next to him at the battle of Roxburgh.

17)
The Earl of Morton, who introduced the first guillotine to Scotland, was beheaded by the very same guillotine that he introduced.

18)
Attila The Hun was having sex with his 13th wife on their wedding night when he burst an artery and died.

19)
In 1957, King Haakon VII, of Norway, was having a bath when he slipped on the soap and smashed his head on the taps, killing him.

20)
Pope Alexander VI was killed after he accidentally drank some poison that he intended to use on his cardinals.

21)
In 1923, the Second Marquis of Ripon, England, dropped stone dead while he was on a grouse hunt, having already bagged 52 birds that morning.
It is estimated that he killed 556,000 birds during his lifetime.

22)
Alan Pinkerton, the founder of the famous detective agency in the USA, tripped over, bit his tongue and later died of gangrene.

23)
King Mithridates VI, from Pontus, in Asia Minor, was in the habit of taking poison in small doses so that he would develop a resistance in case anyone tried to assassinate him.
When the Romans invaded and defeated him, Mithridates decided to commit suicide, but the poison he took had no effect.
He ordered his slave to run him through with a sword instead.

24)
Pope John XIII, was having sex with a married woman when he was caught and murdered by her irate husband.

25)
In 1685, James Duke of Monmouth, England, who tried to take the English throne by force was beheaded. After the execution, however, the Keeper of the Kings Pictures realized that no official portrait of James existed.
James' head was then sewn back onto his body and placed in a chair to have his portrait painted by the artist Godfrey Kneller.

26)
King John, of England, died after attending a feast in his honour at the town of Lynn, Norfolk. He ate a sumptuous feast followed by his favourite dessert, peaches in cider, but he ate so much that he suffered very violent stomach pains and died a few days later.

27)
In 1899, President Felix Faure, of France, was having sex with a prostitute in a Paris brothel when he suddenly died. The prostitute was so shocked that his penis had to be surgically removed from her.

28)
King Henry I, of England, died after eating too many lampreys, also known as small eels.

29)
Queen Eleanor, the wife of King Edward I, of England, died after she personally sucked out all the gangrenous poison out of a battle wound her husband had recieved. King Edward survived.

30)
King Edmund Ironside, of Southern England, died while he was sitting on the toilet. An enemy knight named Eric Streona was hiding in the pit below and when the King sat down to do his Royal poo poo, Streona thrust his sword straight into the King's anus, using so much force that that the sword became embedded in his bowels.

31)
In 1290, Queen Margaret, of Scotland, was sailing from her home country of Norway across the North Sea when she began suffering from severe seasickness and died on the Orkney Islands before ever setting foot on the Scottish mainland.

32)
Sir Arthur Aston, the Royalist leader during the English Civil War, was captured and beaten to death with his own wooden legs by Oliver Cromwell's troops.

33)
General Jan Zizka, of Bohemia, gave instructions that when he died his skin should be used to cover a drum to beat out defiance against his enemies.
The drum was sounded at the outbreak of the thirty years war in 1618, almost 200 years after his death.

34)
When Queen Caroline, wife of George II, of England, was dying she started laughing hysterically when on of the doctors who was treating her bent over too close to a candle and set his wig on fire.

35)
In 1852, the Duke of Hamilton, of England, died and was buried in a genuine ancient Egyptian coffin. However he was found to be too long to fit in the coffin so his legs had to be cut off before he could fit inside.

 

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36)
William the Conqueror, King of England, was so big that he could not fit in his coffin after he died. Two of his soldiers tried to squash him in by jumping up and down on him with such force that they broke the King's back causing his stomach to explode.

37)
Giuseppe Grimaldi, the world famous clown, was so terrified of being buried alive that his last wish was that his head be cut off before he was buried.

38)
King Richard I, of England, had his heart buried in a different place to the rest of his body.

39)
When King George IV of England died, the embalmers did such sloppy work that the King's body became badly swollen in his coffin.
Fearing that the body would explode through the lining, his attendants drilled a hole in the casket to let some of the rotten air out.

40)
French poet, Gerard de Nerval died after hanging himself from a lamp-post.

41)
In Cornwall, England, In May 1812, an innkeeper had the same dream on three consecutive nights about the shooting of a leading politician in the House of Commons. At the time the innkeeper did not have any idea who the man was but his description seemed to match that of the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
Several days later news reached Cornwall that Prime Minister Perceval had been shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons.

42)
Chuck Willis, the American R & B singer died in 1958 shortly after releasing his song "What am I living for?"

43)
Rock and Roll legend Eddie Cochran's last song before he was killed in a car crash was "Three steps to heaven"

44)
When US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated it wasn't treated as a federal crime. In 1963 it fell under local jurisdiction.

45)
Lyricist, Lena Gilbert Ford, who wrote the song "Keep The Home Fires Burning", died in a fire at her home.

46)
Marc Bolan and Bing Crosby both died within weeks of recording TV shows with David Bowie. They were both dead before the shows were screened.

47)
Keith Moon, the drummer with THE WHO, died in the same London flat as singer Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas And The Papas.
Moon died of an accidental drug overdose and Elliot died when she choked on a chicken sandwich.

48)
Soul singer Sam Cooke died in 1964 after wandering into the wrong hotel room. Seeing that Cooke wasn't wearing any clothes, the female occupant felt threatened and gunned him down.

49)
Terry Kath, lead singer of Chicago, died in 1978 after losing a game of Russian Roulette. His last words were "Don't worry, it's not loaded."

50)
Olympic athelete, Stella Walsh, who won gold in the 1932 100 metres sprint, died in 1980 when she was shot during an armed robbery. During the autopsy it was revealed that she was in fact a man.

51)
Horse racing jockey, Frank Hayes, rode his horse, Sweet Kiss to victory at Belmont Park in 1925 but after the race he was found to be dead in his saddle.

52)
Classical composer, Jean Baptiste Lully, who was the director of music at the court of King Louis XIV of France, died when he injured himself conducting. He accidentally stabbed his own foot with his long cane when he was beating on the floor to the tempo. This developed quickly into an abcess and eventual gangrene.

53)
Actress Ava Gardner, who died in 1990, left her pet corgi, Morgan, a monthly salary and his own limo and maid.

54)
US actress Natalie Wood, who suffered from hydrophobia (A fear of water), died from drowning in 1981.

55)
US horror actor Bela Lugosi was buried in his Dracula cloak when he died.

56)
US actor Ronald Reagan's chimpanzee co-star in the film "Bedtime For Bonzo" died before the film's premiere.

57)
US actor George Reeves, who played Superman in the 1950's, committed suicide in 1959 by shooting himself.

58)
British writer Mrs Beeton, an authority on home cooking, died in 1865 at the age of 29.

59)
The artist, Raphael, was born on 6th April 1483 and he died on 6th April 1520.

60)
British Philosopher, Francis Bacon died after catching a fatal chill after he conducted one of the earliest experiments in frozen food. He stuffed a chicken with snow to see if the cold preserved the flesh and ended up dying from it.

 

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61)
Novelist Arnold Bennett died in 1931 after drinking a glass of water in a Paris hotel, to prove the water was safe. Two months later he died of typhoid.

62)
Wallace Carothers, the man who invented nylon, committed suicide before he had a chance to see the first nylon products go on sale.

63)
King Edward II, of England (1284-1327), was very neglectful of his duties to his country and preferred to idle his time away with his friends, Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser.
The English barons and earls managed to get Gaveston exiled and then executed and Despenser was executed by being castrated, disembowelled and then beheaded in front of a jeering crowd.
Meanwhile King Edward was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle, near Gloucester and although treated very well at first it was decided that he should be killed without leaving any marks on his body.
Various attempts to kill him included starving him to death, and leaving a rotten corpse under his floorboards so that he would asphyxiate, neither of which worked.
Finally they inserted a red hot poker deep into his rectum which left the King dying in agony. The official cause of his death is recorded as dying of a sudden seizure.

64)
In Dorset, England in 879AD, King Edward I visited his stepmother, Queen Elfrida while on a hunting trip. Wanting her own son Ethelred (The Unready) on the throne, Elfrida planned to kill Edward.
She slyly offered him a cup of mead, and, as Edward bent over to get the drink, one of her retainers plunged a dagger into his side.
Edward instantly rode off on his horse but eventually died, his body lying half buried in a bog.
His body was buried at Wareham then eventually moved to Shaftesbury.

65)
King Henry VI, of England, was executed in the Tower Of London and his body put on public display in St Paul's Cathedral after Edward IV won the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, he himself becoming King.

66)
After the death of Princess Diana in August 1997, stablehands spent five days throwing bouquets of flowers at the Royal horses accompanying the coffin to prepare them for the big day.

67)
In Texas, USA, in 1954, American singer, Johnny Ace, aged 25, was celebrating backstage at the Houston City Auditorium when he decided to have a friendly game of Russian Roulette.
Unfortunately for Johnny the gun was loaded and his brains ended up all over the floor!

68)
On 19th March, 1982, Rock guitarist, Randy Rhoads, a member of Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard Of Oz Tour, died instantly when a plane he was in, being flown by the tour bus driver Andrew Aycock, clipped the tour bus after flying low stunts three times.
The plane then hit a tree and finally a house. It was later revealed that Aycock was going off the rails on cocaine at the time of the accident.

69)
In Swansea, Wales, on May 3rd, 1972, Scottish guitarist, Les Harvey, aged 27, a member of the group "Stone The Crows" died while playing a gig at Swansea University.
While on stage he stepped on a live microphone wire and was instantly electrocuted.

70)
In Sydney, Australia, on November 22nd, 1997, Australian singer, Michael Hutchence, aged 37, died from autoerotic asphyxiation (sexual gratification by being strangled).
Well known for picking up seedy prostitutes and for choking and tying up his wife, Paula Yates, he was found naked with a belt tied to a door and looped around his neck. Cocaine was also found in his blood.

71)
Bass guitarist, Jaco Pastorius, who was thought of as one of the greatest bass guitarists who ever lived, and was nominated for three grammy's had quite a colourful life and near death.
He worked with groups such as "Blood, Sweat and Tears","Joni Mitchell" and "Cochran's CC Riders" and was a member of the group "Weather Report".
Although very talented he was also very erratic and regularly indulged in huge amounts of booze.
One night during a Santana concert he leapt on stage and caused such havoc that he had to be forcibly removed from the hall.
Later the same night he decided to visit a club where he had been barred from and began kicking at the door. Luc Havan, the manager of the club, instantly went outside and began fighting with Pastorius, who was then knocked to the ground, practically dead.
Havan was later charged with aggravated battery.
In 2004 Pastorius was finally taken off his ventilator.

72)
Frankie Lymon, the lead singer of the 50's group "The Teenagers" died at the age of 25 of a drugs overdose.
Famous for the song "Why do fools fall in love?", Lymon was only 12 years old when he became a huge star and was once photographed with Marilyn Monroe on one arm and Jane Russell on the other.
He was an habitual dope smoker at school and would also supply black prostitutes for white men.
During his early teens he had a reputation as serial womaniser but when the fame dried out his popularity with the women disappeared too, so he turned to heroin and met his maker!

73)
US singer, Billie Holiday, who was lying in her death bed in hospital in 1959, managed to get William Dufty, a magazine writer, to smuggle in a large amount of money to her.
It was later claimed that when she was being examined about half an hour before she died, a large roll of $50 dollar bills was found rolled up tight with scotch tape and inserted deep into her vagina.

74)
US general, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, who fought during the American Civil War, died after he was accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers.
He was shot in the arm, which had to be amputated but nontheless died 8 days later in agony.
Jackson was buried in Lexington, Virginia but his arm was buried in Chancellorsville, the site of the famous battle where he was wounded.
Fifty years later his arm was exhumed and reburied in a steel box in Ellwood, Virginia.

75)
US Union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, who was leader of the Teamsters Union, one day just mysteriously disappeared off the face of the planet.
Hoffa, who had many Mafia connections, is thought to have been killed and buried in concrete in the end-zone of the Giants American Football Stadium in New Jersey while it was under construction.

76)
US actress, Clara Bow, who starred in many silent movies and had a reputation as a maneater, died in her sleep in 1965 after watching an old Gary Cooper movie.
She slept with Gary Cooper and once described him as having "The biggest cock in Hollywood!"

77)
The famous aviator Orville Wright, who was the very first man to fly in an aeroplane, was also involved in the very first air crash fatality.

78)
Playwright and writer Moliere died on stage while he was acting the role of an invalid in the play 'Le Malade Imaginaire'.

79)
Pope John XII died after a severe beating at the hands of a furious husband who found the pontiff making love to his wife!

80)
When US actor Charles Coburn died in 1961 he was cremated and had his ashes scattered in 5 different places.

81)
Jim Fixx, the pioneer of jogging, actually died while jogging.

82)
King George the II died after falling off the toilet.

83)
After US actor James Dean died in a car crash teenagers paid money to sit in the wrecked car.

84)
The author Robert Louis Stevenson is buried in Western Samoa.

85)
Charles I of England was accompanied to his execution by his pet dog. So was Mary Queen of Scots.

86)
Scientists Sir Humphrey Davy, Marie Curie and Michael Faraday were all poisoned by the chemicals they used during their experiments.

87)
Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day and eventually died of caffeine poisoning.

88)
Lord Lovat of England had the last laugh when he was executed on the Tower Hill scaffold.
A stand that was packed with ghoulish spectators collapsed killing twelve of them.

89)
After Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded his head was parboiled and stuck on a pole on London Bridge.
His daughter eventually reclaimed the head three months later.

90)
Queen Ines de Castro is noted as being the only Queen in history to be crowned after her death.
She was exhumed, dressed up in her robes and propped up in the throne for the occasion.

 

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91)
Mata Hari, the famous spy, had a special outfit made for herself so that she would look smart during her execution.

92)
El Cid, the famous Spanish War hero, actually won a battle after he was dead!
To rally his troops, his embalmed body was strapped to a horse and sent out into the battlefield at a critical moment which was enough for his side to win.

93)
When Russian monk Rasputin was murdered his penis was cut off and preserved in a case specially made for it.
The size of the case was 18 inches long by six inches wide.

94)
King Charles VII of France was so terrified of being poisoned that he died of starvation.

95)
The man who wrote the song "Pack up your troubles in your old kitbag and smile, smile, smile!" actually committed suicide.

96)
Mark Twain was born when Haley's comet appeared in 1835. Amazingly he died on the same day it next appeared in 1910.

97)
US actor W.C. Fields died on Christmas day.

98)
English actor Charlie Chaplin also died on Christmas day.

99)
Before Queen Victoria's State funeral it had always been the custom for a royal to be buried without any pomp or ceremony during the night.
Victoria, however, made plans in her will for a funeral to be remembered and this tradition has been carried on ever since.

100)
The very last descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte died after he tripped over a dog lead in Central Park, New York.

101)
Admiral Nelson of England is buried in the crypt of St. Pauls Cathedral, London in a coffin that is made from the mast of a captured French ship.
His tomb is made from black marble and was originally intended as the resting place of Cardinal Wolsey, King Henry VIII's cardinal, who died hundreds of years before.
Wolsey fell out of favour with King Henry and the tomb was never used until Admiral Nelson died.

102)
British actor Graham Chapman, star of Monty Python's Flying Circus, arranged to be buried on the 13th hour of Friday 13th of October 1989.

103)
P.G. Wodehouse, Captain James Cook and musician Frederick Loewe all died on Valentine's Day.

104)
Sir Walter Raleigh (Executed in 1618) - "So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth!"
These were his last words before being beheaded.

105)
Colonel Pierrepoint, the man who invented the traffic island, had one installed at his own expense in the road outside of his club in London, and, while walking across it was killed instantly when he was hit by a carriage.

106)
Mr. Rolls (owner of the Rolls Royce company) was the very first Englishman to be killed in an aviation accident.

107)
PAIRS OF CELEBRITIES WHO BOTH DIED ON PRECISLEY THE SAME DAY
British musician Freddy Mercury and actor Klaus Kinski both died on 24th November 1991.
Opera singer Maria Callas and British musician Marc Bolan both died on 16th September 1977.
Tennis player Fred Perry and British actor Donald Pleasance both died on 2nd February 1995.
Playwright Ben Travers and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin both died on 18th December 1980.
Writer G.K. Chesterton and writer Maxim Gorky both died on 14th June 1936.
London gangster Ronnie Kray and British actor Arthur English both died on 17th March 1995.
Musician Woody Guthrie and conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent both died on 3rd October 1967.
Dancer Rudolf Nureyev and musician Dizzy Gillespie both died on 6th January 1993.
Writer P.G. Wodehouse and scientist Sir Julian Huxley both died on 14th February 1975.
Broadcaster Gilbert Harding and US actor Clark Gable both died on 16th November 1960.
US Musician Marvin Gaye and broadcaster Rene Cutforth both died on 1st April 1984.
US actor/director Orson Welles and actor Yul Brynner both died on 10th October 1985.
Poet Cecil Day-Lewis and British actress Margaret Rutherford both died on 22nd May 1972.
Aviator Orville Wright and Indian leader Mahatma Ghandi both died on 30th January 1948.
British actor David Niven and actor Raymond Massey both died 29th July 1983.
British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and British actor Peter Finch both died on 14th January 1977.
US musician Sammy Davis Jnr and Muppet creator Jim Henson both died on 16th May 1990.
US actor River Phoenix and Italian director Frederico Fellini both died on 31st October 1993
US President John F. Kennedy and British writer Aldous Huxley both died on 22nd November 1963.

108)
Bob Fosse, the director and choreographer of the film "Cabaret" died in 1987. In his will he left $378.79 to 66 people to "Go out and have dinner on me!"
These people included Liza Minelli, Janet Leigh, Elia Kazan, Dustin Hoffman, Melanie Griffith, Neil Simon, Ben Gazzara, Jessica Lange and Roy Scheider.

109)
When the writer George Bernard Shaw died he left a large amount of money for the purpose of replacing the standard English alphabet of 26 letters with a more efficient alphabet of at least 40 letters. This was never achieved.

110)
In 1937 US writer F. Scott Fitzgerald made up his will which specified that "A funeral and burial in keeping with my station in life".
However, in 1940, just before his death a much poorer Fitzgerald changed the provision to read "Cheapest funeral.....without undue ostentation or unnecessary expense".
The funal cost of his funeral came to $613.25.

111)
After his death, English writer William Shakespeare left his wife, Anne, "My second best bed".

112)
The painter Raphael (6th April 1483 to 6th April 1520) died on his birthday. Amazingly he was born and died on a Good Friday.

113)
William Shakespeare and Ingrid Bergman both died on their birthdays.

 

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